Vendor Stories : Posts from August 2013

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  • Vendor Spotlight: Innies

    I remember the day I walked into The Container Store for the first time. I had heard about this amazing place – a Mecca for organizational products. Curiosity, coupled with a love for organizing, led me to make the hour-long journey from my home in Southern California early one Saturday morning. As I walked through the doors I was in absolute awe. This was what I imagined heaven to be – big, organized and run by friendly and helpful people! I pushed my cart up and down each aisle, making mental

  • How We Sell the Hard Stuff

    Did you ever wonder how our employees just seem to know EVERYTHING about ALL of our products and always have the PERFECT solution for the toughest organizational challenges? Well, it’s all about the training! Before we open a new store, our newly-hired employees experience an entire month of training on all of our products, store systems, our Foundation Principles, and more. This allows them to be fully prepared before they hit the sales floor! One of our new store employees’ FAVORITE trainings

  • Vendor Spotlight: in.bag/PurseN

    In.bag was developed and created from a passionate place…the love of handbags! I remember going to the New York Gift Show after just traveling back from a long fight from China…jet lagged and all. I went to the show with inspiration and the hope of having the best show ever. It was a great first day because I met the most incredible women who happened to be there to buy products for their launch of The Container Store’s “Gift Wrap Wonderland” holiday catalog. I remember looking up and noticing

  • Vendor Spotlight: InterMetro, “It’s a party…for me!”

    InterMetro is a manufacturer of storage solutions ranging from wire shelving, to food preparation holding cabinets, to clean room lab equipment, and much more. When The Container Store’s founders called Dick Maslow (InterMetro President in 1978) wanting to sell Metro shelving in their store, Mr. Maslow naturally asked what type of store it was. Whatever was communicated at the time, the thing that stuck with Mr. Maslow was these gentlemen in Dallas were selling all sorts of containers,

  • Vendor Spotlight: 3B Bags

    In Kip’s 35th anniversary message, he talks a lot about the importance of our vendor relationships – that by creatively crafting mutually beneficial vendor relationships and treating our vendors like we would want to be treated (and as partners in our business) this allows us both to thrive. In honor of our 35th anniversary, we asked some of our wonderful vendors to tell us the story of how they came to work with The Container Store. We hope you enjoy hearing from each of them in our Vendor